The debate revolves around just what is a safe level of the chemical to ingest and whether it should be in contact with food. Federal guidelines currently put the daily upper limit of safe exposure at 50 micrograms of BPA per kilogram of body weight.
Putting that in real numbers that would be 3.5 milligrams for someone weighing about 150 pounds.
Del Monte Fresh Cut Green Beans had BPA levels ranging from 35.9 ppb to as much as 191 ppb
Eating a pound of those beans (yikes! a pound of beans?) at the maximum measured level would give you 0.09 milligrams. To hit the federal guidelines you would have to eat 404 pounds of the maximumly contaminated beans a day.
Now you can argue about whether the guidelines are good or not, but I think the quick switches from micrograms/kilogram of body weight to parts per billion without doing some math in the article is an attempt to scare people who won't do the math themselves.
Thanks!
Wow - you have already debunked this NEW (to me) scare!!!!
Don’t worry - though - it won’t stop the FDA from outlawing all our (cheap) canned food and plastic bottled beverages and food....
I would be concerned about the build up over time and if this toxin stays in your body. Think of all the plastic on a daily basis. Is it also in plastic water bottles, pop bottles?
May make sense to try and reduce exposure.
“To hit the federal guidelines you would have to eat 404 pounds of the maximumly contaminated beans a day.”
If I can manage to do it for one day only, will I be in trouble?